In Defense of the Constitution
Anti-CAIR Press Release
030/03
- CAIR Whines and Seethes, Joins
Boycott of Iftaar Dinner
CAIR Whines and Seethes, Joins
Boycott of Iftaar Dinner
Just what is it
that has the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) spokesman, Mr.
Ibahim Hooper so upset? Why
is the Executive Director of American Muslims for Jerusalem (AMJ), Mr. Khalid
Turahni so concerned?
Could
it be that both organizations weren’t invited to this years Iftaar dinner at the White House?
Is it just possible that President Bush had no desire to break bread
with supporters of Islamist terrorism? Had the President
come to the rational conclusion that Hamas supporters
have nothing to add to the national discussion on Islamist terror and it
would be an insult to all Americans to see either Mr. Hooper or Mr. Turahni in the White House?
Has
President Bush drawn the line between Islamics(*) and Islamists? Could it be that the President no longer has any tolerance
for CAIR’s support of Islamist terror? Is it possible that CAIR’s
association with Islamist terrorism suspects
has made an unfavorable impression on the White House?
The White House denies the exclusion
of nation Muslim organizations. However, Mr. Turahni has challenged this assertion, along with
Mr. Hooper who has stated:
"We need to see real policy meetings in order to see the Iftaar meeting as credible.”
So, just what is Mr. Hooper saying? That the Iftaar dinner isn’t
credible unless CAIR says it is? That the President
of the
In addition, Mr. Hooper made another of his trademark,
ridiculous statements:
“We need
to see regular, productive, policy-based meetings”
The administration of the
What
did CAIR and AMJ hope to accomplish by attending the Iftaar dinner at the White House?
Another handshaking photo op with the President? More propagandizing about
the peaceful, loving ways of Wahhabi Islam?
What
was the response of CAIR and AMJ to not being invited to the Iftaar dinner? Was it taken
as an opportunity for inward reflection? Did CAIR
or AMJ seek to open dialogue with the White House? Did
either make any effort to present rational reasons as to why they should
have been invited to represent American Muslims with the President?
Sadly, no. Instead, CAIR issued
a press release
that ends:
“The Bush
administration unfair foreign policy is responsible for the deaths of innocent
Muslims overseas.
Muslim American leadership should send a message to President Bush that
we will no longer suffer and be mistreated by his administrations unfair
domestic and foreign policies.
We are urging all Muslim leaders who will receive
an invitation by the White House for President Bush's upcoming 2003 Iftaar dinner to decline the invitation, and support
our boycott of this event. Let President Bush eat by himself at his Ramadan
dinner.”
(Copied exactly as written)
CAIR asserts that the President’s foreign policy is responsible
for the deaths of innocent Muslims overseas. However,
as usual, the claim is long on innuendo and short on facts. CAIR fails to mention the name of even one innocent Muslim
who has been killed as a result of the President’s foreign policy.
CAIR
says the Muslim American leadership should send a message to President Bush
that “We will no longer suffer and be
mistreated by his administrations unfair domestic and foreign policies.” Again, more breast beating and bleating about Muslims
being denied their civil rights with nary a fact to back up their ridiculous
statement.
The
boycott announcement continues: “We are urging all Muslim leaders who will receive
an invitation by the White House for President Bush's upcoming 2003 Iftaar dinner to decline the invitation, and support
our boycott of this event. Let President Bush eat by himself at his Ramadan
dinner.” How nice. The
Islamist terror supporters at CAIR are not invited to dinner at the White
House and their response is to ask those who were invited to not attend? That is the best CAIR can do? No
reasoned arguments? No presentation of facts to support
an invitation for them? No, just
a childish, “We weren’t invited, so you shouldn’t go either.”
The
Islamic Supreme Council of America's Jamaluddin Hoffman said to Foxnews.com,
"...although the guest list at the White House dinner reads
like a who's who from Embassy Row's Muslim quarters, his presence at the
event shows that national Muslim-American groups were included at the table."
Is it possible that President Bush did invite
leading American Muslim leaders to the White House for the Iftaar dinner and CAIR/AMJ were not invited because
they do not represent Islam
in
Mr.
Hooper, Mr. Turahni: Get
used to it.
The days of pandering to Islamist extremists
is over. The American people will not support
a president who is soft on terrorism. CAIR/AMJ represent and support those who practice militant Islam. The President knows it. The American
people know it. Deal with it.
(*) We loosely define a Muslim as an Islamic if they
practice peaceful Islam, obey the laws of our country and share in the American
dream. We define Islamists as Muslims who pervert
and insult their god by engaging in terrorist acts in his name.
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